limette [she/her]
I know a lot of people here have negative opinions of China, and even I have negative opinions of how they treat their own citizens (not interested in debating it; I don’t think it’s some hellworld but it ain’t the cuddly place some of y’all make it out to be) but anyone who doesn’t believe this is dumb as shit. China gets their resources, such as oil, by trade. They got Ethiopian oil by building up infrastructure for Ethiopia. The US gets its resources, such as oil, by invading nations and killing millions. One is objectively better for the world, and in fact a net positive rather than a lesser evil in terms of their impact as a superpower.
Again, it doesn’t matter what you think of their internal affairs, China’s conduct as a superpower is a net positive.
Here’s my beloved Yanis speaking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgbYQ5QAM0
A ‘united world’ at the moment would simply mean strengthening the global status quo, which is a neoliberal one. The largest multi-national organizations like the European Union are all neoliberal in nature. Therefore, devolution is in our interest to weaken those organizations’ power.
It’s just a toxic place where people literally exchange death threats and shit nonstop. I used to be one of the most active users, mods kept being shitheads and gaslighting eachother until everyone left. Most of the users are literally alts of like 4 people.
You have a point actually, didn’t really think it through. I was just basing my stances off of reddit arguments I’d seen with anprims.
I heard about the wetlands thing in Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States though I never finished the book because my Kindle broke.